WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Television thrives on unreason, and unreason thrives on television. It strikes at the emotions rather than the intellect. — Robin Day Copy Share Image
Aphrodite strikes again, huh? You're gonna be the best-dressed warrior in town, beauty queen. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike: you just go in every day and do it really half assed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace? — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is no greater blessing than a family hand that lifts you from a fall; but there is not lower curse than… — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la… — E. V. Lucas Copy Share Image
Anytime I have an idea, I'll make sure that I put it down so that when we do sit down to write… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
Cognitive consonance is what writing in the Age of the idiot is all about. The key to success in the scribbling profession… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I'm very blessed to have a husband who appreciates me. Women feel sexy from feeling attractive and desired. Men feel sexy from… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once… — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
The world may be as evangelized as it will ever get if we attempt to complete the remaining task with a motivation… — Steven C. Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Peter was, simply, what a person would look like if you boiled down the most raw emotions and filtered them of any… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The result is that you are now experiencing what we experienced in the war in Algeria: The Israeli government says that it… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“The sit-down strikers began to worry about the illegality of their action and the why and wherefore, and it was then the… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Iraq was only the latest in a succession of countries. Earlier, there was Cuba, Nicaragua, Libya, Granada, Panama. But this time it… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Where two or three are met together, the prayer of one strikes fire from the soul of another; and the latter in… — James Stalker Copy Share Image
The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
When it comes to explaining human thought and behavior, the possibility that heredity plays any role at all still has the power… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes . Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States... strike hard and… — Craig Rosebraugh Copy Share Image
What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone… It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and… — Meridel Le Sueur Copy Share Image
To stop challenging someone from using anti-gay language simply because they persist in using anti-gay language strikes me as a defeatist approach. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends. — Philip Seymour Hoffman Copy Share Image
Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It is not always possible to know, when you make a note of an event, or a state of mind, how this… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I got a coat lined with hampster. You couldn't do that kind of thing in America. All the Boy Scouts would go… — Suzy Parker Copy Share Image
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only reason that there has been no sabotage or espionage on the part of Japanese-Americans is that they are waiting for… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you. — Jerry Savelle Copy Share Image
Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The only thing about sanctions is that, like a lot of drone strikes, there are countless unintended victims. Cutting off aid to… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
![“The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as a response to the college's refusal to hire Professor Nathan Hare [the so-called father of black studies], and certainly unified the college around issues of justice. These…” quote by Danny Glover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/11e/danny-glover-7902_asian_the-strike-and-its-outcome-had-an-enormo_3047781.jpg)
